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  "title": "The Specified Bovine Material (Treatment and Disposal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
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  "long_title": "These Regulations revoke and re-make with amendments the Specified Bovine Material (Treatment and Disposal) (No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996. They implement various Directives first specified in the Specified Bovine Offal (Treatment and Disposal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 and the Mechanically Recovered Meat Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995.",
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